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Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

This illuminated title page from Walters manuscript W.581 gives the title of the work, as well as the authors' names. There is also a statement referring to the patronage of the manuscript, indicating that it was made for the Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library (bi-rasm al-Khizanah al-Karimah al-"Aliyah al-Mawlawiyah).

This is the final illuminated page in the codex, Walters W.582. The last panel contains the colophon, written in Riqa' script, giving the name of the scribe as Habib Allah ibn Dust Muhammad al-Khwarizmi.

The top and bottom panels of this illuminated finispiece from Walters manuscript W.578 are inscribed with the basmalah and hamdalah in white Thuluth script. The Qur'anic verses in the central panel are written in Square Kufic.

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Rustam's seventh course: He kills the White Div, folio 124 from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

Walters manuscript W.619 is an illuminated manuscript containing 2 works by Sa"di (died 691 AH/AD 1292): the Gulistan (Rose garden) and the Bustan (Orchard). It was copied in 980 AH/AD 1572 by Muhammad Riza al-Tabrizi in Iran. The text of the Gulistan appears in the main area, while that of the Bustan is inscribed obliquely around the main text area on three sides. Both texts are written in black and gold nasta"liq script. The margins are multi-colored, gold-sprinkled tinted or marbled paper. The original leather binding dates to the 10th century AH/AD 16th and has dentelle-style decorated boards and doublures with gold filigree work over a multi-colored ground of blue, green, red, and black.

European Banquet Scene (or The Marriage Feast at Cana?)

This folio from Walters manuscript W.580 is the left side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece of geometric design in gold, red, blue, and green, with a marginal rosette at the left.

The Greedy Dog

Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto); Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama

Book on Navigation

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

This drawing, Walters manuscript leaf W.749, was executed in Safavid Iran, most probably in the late 10th century AH/AD 16th, in Qazvin or Isfahan. Above, a farmer plows; below, a seated young man watches a produce seller weigh his purchase. On the rocks in the center foreground is inscribed the name of one of the most famous painters in Iran in the 11th century AH/AD 17th, Riza 'Abbasi (active 1001-1044 AH/AD 1591-1592 to 1634). As the handwriting does not match that of the artist, an admirer of Riza's work seems to have attributed the drawing to him. The execution and the bucolic subject matter of this drawing relate closely to the oeuvre of the Persian artist Muhammadi Haravi (active late 10th century AH/AD 16th), who worked in Qazvin. It is possible that this composition was conceived as a manuscript page.

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

Amir Khusrau Dedicates His Poem to Sultan Ala al-Din Khalji, page from the Quintet (Khamsa) of Amir Khusraw Dehlavi

This folio from Walters manuscript W.677 depicts Bahram Gur in a peasant's house.

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Zal Climbing to Rudaba, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

This illustration from Walters manuscript W.644 depicts Zulaykha in a blue-domed litter on a camel led by a cameleer. The retinue is entering the capital of Egypt.

This folio from Walters manuscript W.596 depicts the fall of Samarqand.

Al-Mu'tazz Sends Gifts to Abdulla ibn Abdulla, from a copy of the Tarikh-i Alfi

"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Kichik Beg Wounded during Babur's Attack on Qalat, from a copy of the Baburnama (Book of Babur)

Collection of Poems (Divan)

On this folio from Walters manuscript W.653, a middle-aged woman stands in a landscape, holding a vase of flowers. The salmon pink margins are stenciled with animal and floral forms. The catchword at the lower left indicates that the following folio is missing.

Silk Animal Carpet

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Carpet

Textile

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Velvet and Silk Carpet

Leaf from Book of Hours

The Flood of Noah (Genesis 7:11-24)

Tile Panel

Silk Kashan Carpet

Walters manuscript W.620 has a brown leather blind-stamped binding with a flap. The binding is decorated with a central oval medallion and pendants. This binding is not original to the manuscript.

The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, Page from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama

A Procession Scene with Musicians, from a copy of the Padshanama

Grapevine in the Wind

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

The Emperor's Carpet

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

On this folio from Walters manuscript W.604, King Qizil Arslan welcomes the poet Nizami.

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Floral Tent Panel

Garden Gathering

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Maharana Amar Singh II with Ladies of the Zenana outside the Picture Hall at Rajnagar

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Five Medallion Carpet

Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Initial "P" (Primum quidem)

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia

A Stallion

Four Portraits from the St. Petersburg Album. Painters unknown, borders by Muhammad Sadiq. Top left: Nadir Shah, Iran, ca. 1740. Top right: Adil Shah, Iran, ca. 1748. Bottom left: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Bottom right: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Art Institute of Chicago 1919.952 recto

A Young Prince on Horseback

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Krishna's Fifth and Sixth Avatars, page from a copy of the Gitagovinda of Jayaveda

Mandala Base

Vasant Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

"Lotto" Carpet

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Buddhist Deities

Textile Fragment

Portrait of Prince Sur Singh Rathor of Bikaner (1594–1631)

In the margins are depicted hybrid angel-musicians, a bear-trainer and musicians, apes trapping a bird, apes at school, a nude man at the far left, and an ape kneeling before a doctor with a urinal.

Krishna Fluting

Asavari Ragini, page from a Garland of Musical Ragas (Ragamala) Set

Velvet Fragment with Design from Nizami of Ganja's Khusrau and Shirin

Palampore

Thanka with Buddha

Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

Lakeside Retreat

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Birds and Flowers

Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)

Woman Addressing a Peacock: Gujari Ragini of Megh, from a Ragamala

Walters manuscript W.620 has a brown leather blind-stamped binding with a flap. The binding is decorated with a central oval medallion and pendants. This binding is not original to the manuscript.

Birds and Flowers

Peonies

Heer Ranjha: Lady with Water Jug on her Head and Lady Holding out her Arms, Jodhpur school, India, c. mid-18th century, opaque watercolor on paper, Tokyo National Museum

Books and Scholars’ Accoutrements

Gedicht op de zilveren bruiloft van Ludolph Simon de With en Maria de Wit, 15 augustus 1771